Iberg Dripstone Cave
The Iberg Dripstone Cave (German: Iberger Tropfsteinhöhle) is a public cave and geology museum in southern Lower Saxony near Bad Grund, Germany. It is located on the western edge of the Harz mountains in the 563-metre-high (1,847 ft) Iberg mountain at a height of 440 metres (1,440 ft) above sea level in the chalk of an upper Devonian atoll reef. The actual dripstone cave is 123 metres long. With its 78-metre-long (256 ft) Captain Spatzier Gallery, the Yellow Climb (Gelben Stieg) and two other caverns, the total length of the cave is 300 metres (980 ft).
| Iberg Dripstone Cave | |
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View of the Museum am Berg built in 2008 | |
| Location | near Bad Grund, Harz mountains, Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°49′03″N 10°15′10″E |
| Length | 220 m |
| Elevation | 440 m |
| Discovery | 1723 |
| Geology | Dripstone cave |
| Show cave opened | 1874 |
| Show cave length | 351 m |
| Lighting | electric (since 1912) |
| Visitors | 60,500 (2004–2008) |
| Website | Official website |
Between 2006 and 2008, the cave was turned into a 'cave experience centre' with the three main themes of "Fascination Cave" "The oldest family in the world" and "A reef on a journey".
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